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Questions Doubts and Requests => Recipe Requests => Topic started by: Aviendha on November 23, 2011, 01:49:15 am
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I am just wondering if anyone has tips on how to make feta cheese?
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jeninwa or cookie may be the experts perhaps on this?
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Not me I'm afraid. Jeninwa is the cheese maker, although I would love to learn.
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You will need a source of milk that is not ultra-homogenized/pasteurized and it is preferable to use raw milk if you can get it.
You can get a kit, with the necessary ingredients from Cheeselinks (http://www.cheeselinks.com.au/kitfetta.html) if you are in Australia.
If you can't get the unprocessed milk, you can also add a few drops of calcium chloride (http://www.cheeselinks.com.au/homerennet.html), also available from Cheeselinks, to add to the milk before you add the lipase & etc.
I prefer a combination of goat milk and cow milk as for me this gives the best flavor but that's a matter of personal taste.
This place (http://fiascofarm.com/dairy/feta.html) is in the U.S. but the process is shown in a series of photos, which makes it easy to understand.
It produces a lot of whey and I save this, add a small amount of milk to it and then make ricotta from the whey/milk mixture.
Here's the process in photos. (http://biology.clc.uc.edu/fankhauser/cheese/Ricotta/ricotta_00.htm)
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Bit late reading this I buy all my ingredients for cheese making from Green Living Australia
http://www.greenlivingaustralia.com.au/index.html